A new edition of Payments and Settlements News has been posted by the ePayments Systems Observatory at the European Central Bank.

Read Jeremy Wagstaff's post on the perils of autoresponse when you're away from your email -- and you might think twice about whether you want to continue to use it.

Jeremy Wagstaff blogs about Daniel McNamara's Code Fish site and his analysis of a new phishing trojan.

Phishing emails don't need to be sophisticated to lure the unwary. Indeed, there's some evidence those behind the more convincing looking emails masquerading as bank emails are also behind a spate of key-logging trojans, which use basic methods to fool the recipient into making them active.

Kelly Mills reports in The Australian on phishing attacks in Australia.

Ellen Messmer reports in TechNewsWorld on Microsoft's focus on two-factor authentication.

Lisa Haarlander reports in the Buffalo News on a recent theft of credit card receipts from a local retailer.